Pearl Harbor Movie Review 2001

Director Bay has also done "The Rock" and "Armageddon" so he knows his way around big-budget, action-packed event movies. The problem, besides his usual difficulties with characterization and sublety, is that we have to wade through the trite romantic triangle between U.S. Army Air aviator Hartnett, flyboy Affleck, and Navy nurse Beckinsale before we get to the well-done spectacle of the bombing on December 7, 1941, as well as the subsequent U.S. raid on Tokyo led by James Doolittle (Baldwin). It's probably quicker, and more enjoyable, to skip to the attack sequence between a rented double feature of "From Here to Eternity" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo."

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 183 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Triangles, World War II, Airborne, Boom!, Military: Navy, Doctors & Nurses, Hawaii, Top Grossing Films of 2001

Screenplay

Randall Wallace

Cast

Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin, Cuba Gooding, Dan Aykroyd, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, William Lee Scott, Colm Feore, Michael Shannon, Peter Firth, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Kellner, Jaime (James) King, Scott Wilson, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Leland Orser, Graham Beckel, Tomas Arana, Guy Torry, Brian Haley, Tony Curran, Kim Coates, Glenn Morshower, John Fujioka, Tim Choate, John Diehl, Ted McGinley, Raphael Sbarge

Cinematography

John Schwartzman

Director

Michael Bay

Music

Hans Zimmer

Other

Peter J. Devlin, Bob Badami, Kathy Nelson, Chris Lebenzon, Steven Rosenblum, Mark Goldblatt, Roger Barton, Jon Billington, William Ladd Skinner, Michael Kaplan, Nigel Phelps

Producer

Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Touchstone Pictures